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Pinkie exits the room with her case while the rest of us finish our own breakfasts.

I was about to speak up before one of my incupony soldiers bursts in.

"My Lord! Scouts have just reported sighting the walking castle, it's heading to the Blasted Wastes from the Lost Soul Sea and towards Felfire!" he tells me, getting my full attention.

"Prepare the fastest ships, gather our strongest demons, and get ready to fly to Felfire!" I order him getting a nod before he runs back out.

"What's going on?" Applejack asks confused.

"Tirek's making his move. But we're going to attack him before he even reaches Felfire. Twilight stay here, I know you wanted to help get rid of him, but due to your pregnancy, I won't allow you to come," I reply and tell Twilight before she could say anything, making her pout angrily.

"You're going into a fight!?" Mel asks wide eyed.

"No," I reply making her sigh in relief. "I'm going to war," I then tell her.

"Are you fucking insane!?" she then yells and storms right up to my face with a deep frown on her own.

"I'm quite sane thank you. This isn't the first war I've been in and it certainly won't be the last. But I need to take this bastard out before he can get away and cause more trouble for us."

Mel tries to speak but I place a finger on her lips. "I'll come back just fine, I have my wife and sons to watch my back as well as Luna and Selene, not to mention my own army," I tell her making her frown harder but not say anything else as she slumps back onto her chair.

I then make my way out of the room with Desire, Luna, Selene, and my sons following behind me. I smile as I hear Applejack tell Tidus to be careful.

"So how will we attack his castle, father?" Tidus asks me along the way.

"We'll observe from the airships first to survey its defences, but I think we'll use the cannons as well as powerful blasts of demon magic to attack the legs of the castle to prevent it from advancing further and from fleeing as well. Then we'll surround it with the airships before sending our forces inside to find the bastard, and once we find him, I'll rip out his soul," I reply as we head to our armoury.

We arrive and the others quickly don their armour as I smile standing in front of my demonite plate armour I had made after taking this castle. It has several scratches and dents from battles with the other demonlords still around, and I don't doubt it will receive more in the battle to come.

Desire is wearing her own newly made demonite armour we had made recently due to her new size that actually covers more of her body than her last set.

Both of ours look similar that are dark purple and have blades on the sides of our forearms to not only parry another's weapon, but to slice open throats easily.

Our boots and gauntlets look like bones woven together which are thick and dense allowing us to hit hard and block attacks better. Our chestplates and helmets are reinforced to protect our heart and brain from fatal or crippling blows. Our thighs and biceps are only lightly armoured to allow us more mobility, but will still provide decent protection.

The armour has human skulls for the pauldrons and helmet's shape as well as the belt's buckle. The chestplate looks like a rib cage while the bicep and thighs look like sharp scales.

Our sons armour is similar to ours, but lighter as they don't have the strength we do to lug ours around. Vipirior and Scalefang both have plates along the backs or their tails to help protect them, but the underside is vulnerable as they can't move with it covered.

Luna and Selene have both requested armour to be made for them and it looks like smooth elegant armour dyed with their magic to look like a moonlight silvery blue. They have half-plate armour with chainmail underneath, they went with mobility over raw protection mostly. They also have two demonite longswords each about a meter long and slightly serrated, as well as their own midnight blue revolver rifles and pistols.

Once equipped and armed, we head up to the airship docks and board a sloop, while the flagship Death from above and two frigates have already set out ahead of us as we'll easily catch up to them.

"Now all we can do is wait and plan on how we attack," I say as we watch the City slowly fade away.

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Our ship has caught up to the others and even passed them. We were attacked by a few direbats along the way, but it seems Tirek is no longer sending forces out to disrupt transport from Felfire to Fel Haven anymore.

Along the way we discuss what we could do to the castle from images drawn from the first scouts who encountered the castle. Our main focus will be the two knee joints in each leg to cripple or even collapse the castle.

We eventually dock at Felfire and Mo'gra greets us at the dock with a relieved expression.

"Oh I'm so happy to see you, my Lord! Our scouts have been keeping an eye on the castle and it is definitely on its way here, they estimate another two days before it arrives. It's already destroyed two frontier towns in its way, but the demons all evacuated here long before they arrived," she tells me.

"I see. Then once the other ships arrive, we'll mount a counterattack. Get all the ships you have here armed and ready for battle," I reply and tell her.

"Of course, my Lord," she replies and bows slightly before adjusting her large glasses and walking off.

"So, before we head off into battle, I'll need a quick top up from you," desire tells me.

"Fair enough," I reply and turn to my sons. "Get the fleet ready and prepare to move out as soon as the Death from above arrives," I tell them getting them to nod.

"Asss you wisssh, father," Vipirior says and they all head out to do as I ask.

"And us?" Selene asks.

"Look around or stay here until the others arrive, I'm not really sure what you can do to help right now," I reply getting a sigh from her.

"Very well," she says and walks off with Luna behind her.

Meanwhile Desire is already pulling me by my left arm to our personal room in the manor where she removes only hers and my armours crotch plates before bending over the bed and spreading her legs.

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Scouts have been reporting on the castle's movements on the hour every hour, it's still heading our way and seems to have picked up speed.

Our other ships have arrived and are fully armed and we have all of our ground troops on board while the incuponies, succuponies, harpies, and any other flying deamon or stronger will take to the air beside us. We have a total of ten ships with us.

Desire, Luna, Selene, my sons, and I stand on the flagship as we're slowly flying to meet the castle that's just three hours away now.

"This reminds me of the time we fought that demonlord out near the borders of the wallowing woods. He thought he could poison our food supplies with his forces of fel ents to contaminate our crop fields," Desire says with a grin.

"Once we figured it out and had our own fel ents repair or replace the damaged crops, we stormed right over to his castle and made him suffer greatly," I reply but I don't return the smile, we lost over three-thousand demons to the contaminated crops when they were harvested...

"Well what do you plan to do to Tirek?" she asks me with a slight purr in her tone.

"Rip off both of his horns and shove them both up his ass, then I'll break each of his legs in several places and slowly set them on fire until they're ash. Next I'll slowly cut out his organs before force feeding them to him, then I'll rip out his soul slowly and glare coldly into his fading eyes," I reply grimly as my grip tightens on Thanatos in my right hand, who shivers at the thought.

"Hmmm, I'll enjoy watching that. But what about his other demons?" she then asks me.

"Kill the other demonlords he has, but give the archdemons and deamons a chance to join us. Try to knock out the lesser demons so we can convert them later, they're no doubt being forced into this," I reply.

"Alright, sounds good to me, so I can try out my new strength fully on any demonlord we find?" she then asks sadistically.

"By all means, tear them apart. But bring them to me alive, more demonlord souls will be nice to have. I may even be able to transfer their power over to someone else," I reply while thinking who could receive such power. Mo'gra would be good. She's a gentle giant and with a power boost, become a kind but powerful leader to defend Felfire.

While lost in thought, the voice of my son Scalefang brings my attention to him.

"Father, the cassstle is now in sssight," he tells me and hands me a spyglass.

I take it and look through it to see the massive eight legged stone looking castle walking towards us.

"Alright! Load all the cannons and get the snipers into the nests! Get all boarding parties ready to storm the castle once we get it to stop!" I yell out my orders getting cheers as they spread the order to the other ships.

I look through the spyglass again and look at the legs of the castle. Their joints look like they could be damaged as they're not as thick looking as the main segments of the legs. Cannonballs and strong demonic blasts should be able to at least damage the joints enough to make it stop.

Once all of the ships are ready, the castle is only a few minutes away as our ships spread out and start preparing to circle the castle.

"A single harpy is coming!" one of the snipers yells out from above on the balloon.

"Let her come!" I yell.

After a minute or two, the harpy is flying in front of our ship with dull glazed over eyes and not wearing anything, she even has runes and lines branded onto her body.

"My master welcomes you to his castle, he hopes you'll enjoy his hospitality," she tells us lifelessly.

Before I could reply, her body then starts glowing as cracks form all over her and she screams in pain. Desire quickly thrusts her left hand out and sends a blast of energy at the harpy blowing her back until she detonates away from the ship.

The airship tilts from the blast slightly before righting itself.

"Bloody bastard sent a living bomb at us..." Desire says in disgust.

I frown and look towards the castle. Demons are flocking out of it and start gathering around the castle. More and more keep coming, more than the castle seems to be able to hold. I guess that the portal creating demon Tirek has is on board and is sending more demons here.

"All units prepare for battle! Snipers and ranged mages get ready to fire!" I yell out as the order is spread amongst the ships.

I glare at the incoming demons and look through my spyglass, what I see makes me grit my teeth in anger. The harpies, incuponies, and succuponies all have the same brandings on them.

"Fuck... they're all suicide bombers..." I say making the others gasp. "Luna, Selene, Desire, and any archdemon that can fly. We'll go ahead and take as many of them out as possible. Hopefully by detonating one of them they'll all blow in a chain reaction," I tell them. I don't want to risk bringing anyone who's a deamon or lower as we'll have the most chance of surviving a blast up close.

"Very well. Come! Let us fly out and meet them in battle!" Selene says and takes to the air with her rifle in her hands.

We follow behind her and make our way over to the horde of living bombs. Ten archdemons with wings follow us from the other airships and meet us mid flight.

"Once they're in range, open fire!" I say getting my revolver rifle ready, as does the others.

It's eerie not hearing the war cries of our enemy like usual, they're all emotionless, no fear, no doubt. Perfect soldiers.

I narrow my eyes as the demons are now within range. "FIRE!" I yell and pull the trigger.

My shot hits a harpy in the heart, making her burst into flames as she's reduced to ash. Unfortunately, she didn't detonate...

"Shit," I mutter and holster my rifle in favour of launching a barrage of darkfire dragons that take out a good three or four with each blast.

The others are firing their own rifles and demonic blasts, mowing down the demons but it's not enough as they're quickly making their way towards us.

"Fallback to the ships but keep firing!" I say and fly backwards while still launching dragon after dragon.

One of the harpies screech as she launches herself at one of the archdemons with us who looks like a large humanoid bat and before he could take her down, she detonates on him, leaving a nasty burn all over his chest and arms.

He falls out of the sky but Desire creates one of her thorn whips and latches it onto his leg where the thorns dig in. She drags him with us as we get back within range of the ships.

"OPEN FIRE!" I yell at the ships where bullets, magic, and cannonballs wiz pasts us and into the flying horde.

The enemy demons fall out of the sky to the ash covered wastes below, either with damaged wings or as ash themselves. Two of our sloops balloons get blown up as a few demons rammed themselves into them. The crew abandon ship before more demons detonate on the decks and blast the ships in half.

"KEEP FIRING!" I yell out and from the deck of the Death from Above, I continue to fire blast after blast of darkfire dragons into the oncoming horde. Suddenly, the enemy demons twitch before flying off back to the castle where they slowly circle around it.

The castle continues to walk towards felfire while more demons come out of the castle and join the others.

"Why did they stop?" I hear Tidus ask.

"I don't know and I don't like it... maybe they're just trying to keep us away until they reach felfire?" I say and glare at the castle.

"We need to come up with a plan to counter those bombers," Desire says angrily.

"Gather all our commanders into the war room and get the ships to follow the castle but keep their distance for now," I say and head to the back of the deck and into the war room.

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